Example sentences of "[Wh pn] set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 2 | There is little doubt that Harris 's 1,000-Plan saved the Command for the planned strategic bombing of Germany that had been his Directive from the Chiefs-of-Staff Committee who set aside some 3,500 heavy aircraft for this task . |
| 3 | Half of those who set aside money to pay fuel bills are unable to stretch the budget for extra heating in very cold weather . |
| 4 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 5 | Reveals an insider : ‘ The series is based around a failed football star who sets up a celebrity limo service . |
| 6 | On reflection , however , this may not be quite true , since anyone who sets out to plant a wildlife garden instinctively takes a much keener interest in , and is influenced by , natural plant associations and communities . |
| 7 | Any insider who sets out to pursue a reflexive anthropology of policing eventually has to face difficulties which arise when he reaches an objective and analytic understanding of his society and its own specific versions of reality . |
| 8 | It is less disconcerting to tackle the Rugby Union Yearbook , a glossy new annual edited by Mick Cleary who sets out to offer more words and less statistics than the respected Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook . |
| 9 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 10 | There are arguments in favour of this : death is final , murder is the gravest crime , and there is no significant moral difference between someone who chooses to cause really serious injury and someone who sets out to kill . |
| 11 | Archibald Higgins is an ever-curious adventurer who sets out to discover what the world is really like aided by a motley assortment of friends , including a blindfolded snail , a cockney pelican , and a shapely fairy godmother called Sophie . |
| 12 | Everyone who sets out to attack a pensioner should know that if he is caught , he will go to prison for a long time . |
| 13 | Charming at first sight is this picture of the warm-blooded sailor who sets out to win a girl because he has been told he is beneath her . |
| 14 | So too was Oscar Deutsch who set up the Odeon Cinema chain from Colmore Row in the 20 's and 30's . |
| 15 | The clampdown has exposed the close links between landowners , the security forces and the cocaine cartels , who set up paramilitary squads to ‘ clean out ’ left-wing activists from rural areas such as the Magdalena Medio . |
| 16 | The advantages of an exchange rather than a sale , says Mr Nunn ( who set up the business after he successfully swapped his own home ) , are : no chain of buyers and sellers to fall through , stamp duty is payable only on any difference in price between the two properties , and agents ' fees are less . |
| 17 | Nkumbula 's lack of vigour in attacking the Federation , once established , and in supporting participation in the elections for the Legislative Council in 1958 led to the breakaway from the ANC of Kaunda , Simon Kapwepwe and others who set up the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) in 1959 . |
| 18 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 19 | In this the miners are at one with the demonstrators who set up another first in Moscow yesterday — the first rival march to the parade in Red Square which officially salutes the revolution . |
| 20 | The stooge who set up the question was a local Free Presbyterian elder ! |
| 21 | Self-build co-operatives are typically born in one of two ways : The private enterprise approach simply involves a group of people who set up their own company through which to take out a collective loan . |
| 22 | Philip Treacy , a talented novice who set up his company two years ago after leaving The Royal College of Art , makes guest appearances for the Karl Lagerfeld/Chanel stable , Rifat Ozbek and Jil Sander . |
| 23 | The company manufactured electrical components and suffered serious competition from ex-employees who set up in business themselves and poached the company 's customers . |
| 24 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 25 | In Wellington Road is Monks Hall Museum , where an interesting collection of industrial machinery is on display — in particular machines invented by James Nasmyth , the Scottish engineer who set up his works in Manchester . |
| 26 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 27 | Among the other famous names who set up hostels for the Kindertransporte was Harry Jacobs , the head of Times Furnishing . |
| 28 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 29 | Lord Cheshire : July 31 , aged 74 : Second World War flying ace , awarded the VC , who set up the Cheshire Foundation Home . |
| 30 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |